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The Massinga Crew

Chimoio's Market

The Mule Man

Chimoio's new mural.

A painting student.

An instructing professor.

A painting instructor.

A teacher painting.

Our amazing instructor, Mirel, instructing.

Mixing paint.

Mirel.

Another teacher hard at work.

A community artists who also loves short shorts.

Teamwork.

Before we could paint, we had to scrape and clean the wall.

Me. Giving orders as usual.

The preoccupied art crew.

Hamilthon posing in front of Chimoio's new mural.

The Art Club representatives from the southern region of Mozambique.

Kevin and the art students.

Hamilthon observing the win of his team.

Ebên devouring bananas in an eating competition.

Jared and Kevin hard at work.

Preliminary paintings for the mural.

Sketches for the mural.

Hamilthon reflecting on his experiences during the week.

Massinga's very own Mod Squad.

A giant plant and two tiny volunteers.

Competition in the spirit of movement and action.

The Pirate King.

Art session.

Critique.

Critique.

The gentlemen of Massinga enjoying lunch.

Justino enjoying Chimoio.

During the first week of holiday, I, along with two students and my counterpart, had the pleasure of visiting Chimoio, in Manica Province, for a communication conference sponsored by JOMA. As you can see we all had an incredible time where we attended art sessions, learned about gender and leadership, toured the city, and painting a mural together. The whole conference was an amazing learning experience, not only for the young boys but for the teachers and PCVs as well. Although, getting up at 5:30 just to get a hot shower was a bit painful, the fact that I was able to enjoy a shower at all was undeniably sensational. At the weeks end, we presented our sketches and the students talked about the theme for our mural: The Progressive Movement of Women in Mozambique.